Nadine Velazquez

Beautiful Latina Nadine Velazquez was beginning to make a habit of playing sexy supporting role on the big and small screen that emphasized little more than her sultry good looks. But in a turn of goo...
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It’s a Home Improvement Reunion! Richard Karn—aka Al, Tim (The Toolman) Taylor’s sarcastic sidekick—will be will guest starring on Tim Allen’s Last Man Standing. Karn will join the comedy later this season as Bill, a gruff good guy who just so happens to be the Outdoor Man’s original architect. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that Karn will make snarky coments while Allen glues his hand to something. Ahh the ’90.s… good times. [TV Line]
Dawson Leery, Meet MacGyver: Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 has snagged a pretty badass guest star for an upcoming episode. Richard Dean Anderson, who played the resourceful secret agent MacGyver on ABC for seven seasons, has been booked for a cameo. Anderson will be paying himself, but hopefully he take a page out of James Van Der Beek’s acting handbook and uses his role to potentially poke fun at himself. Hey, Saved by the Bell’s Mark-Paul Gosselar did it earlier this yer and we now love him even more than we thought possible. [The Hollywood Reporter]
Big Names Return to The League: Seth Rogan and Jeff Goldblum are reviving their hilarious roles on the FX hit comedy The League. In the Dec. 13 episodes Rogan guest stars as Dirty Ranfy, a porn director who believes that the world is going to end on 12-12-12m rather than Dec. 21. Goldbum revives his role in the hour long finale on Dec. 20 as Ruper Ruxin who gets into a will insert himself into a marital situation between his son (Nick Kroll) and daughter-in-law (Nadine Velazquez). [The Hollywood Reporter]
Setting the Date: The biggest night in television—aka The Emmys—will grace our TV screens Sunday, September 22, 3013. The Primetime Creative Arts Emmys will be awarded on Sunday, Sept. 15.Yes, we understand that these day is almost a year away, but come on it’s the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards! That’s a lot of TV to get excited for. [EW.com]
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Robert Zemeckis is a blockbuster director at heart. Action has never been an issue for the man behind Back to the Future. When he puts aside the high concept adventures for emotional human stories — think Forrest Gump or Cast Away — he still goes big. His latest Flight continues the trend revolving the story of one man's fight with alcoholism around a terrifying plane crash. Zemeckis expertly crafts his roaring centerpiece and while he finds an agile performer in Denzel Washington the hour-and-a-half of Flight after the shocking moment can't sustain the power. The "big" works. The intimate drowns.
Washington stars as Whip Whitaker a reckless airline pilot who balances his days flying jumbo jets with picking up women snorting lines of cocaine and drinking himself to sleep. Although drunk for the flight that will change his life forever that's not the reason the plane goes down — in fact it may be the reason he thinks up his savvy landing solution in the first place. Writer John Gatins follows Whitaker into the aftermath madness: an investigation of what really happened during the flight Whitaker's battle to cap his addictions and budding relationships that if nurtured could save his life.
Zemeckis tops his own plane crash in Cast Away with the heart-pounding tailspin sequence (if you've ever been scared of flying before Flight will push into phobia territory). In the few scenes after the literal destruction Washington is able to convey an equal amount of power in the moments of mental destruction. Whitaker is obviously crushed by the events the bottle silently calling for him in every down moment. Flight strives for that level of introspection throughout eventually pairing Washington with equally distraught junkie Nicole (Kelly Reilly). Their relationship is barely fleshed out with the script time and time again resorting to obvious over-the-top depictions of substance abuse (a la Nic Cage's Leaving Las Vegas) and the bickering that follows. Washington's Whitaker hits is lowest point early sitting there until the climax of the film.
Sharing screentime with the intimate tale is the surprisingly comical attempt by the pilot's airline union buddy (Bruce Greenwood) and the company lawyer (Don Cheadle) to get Whitaker into shape. Prepping him for inquisitions looking into evidence from the wreckage and calling upon Whitaker's dealer Harling (John Goodman) to jump start their "hero" when the time is right the two men do everything they can to keep any blame being placed upon Whitaker by the National Transportation Safety Board investigators. The thread doesn't feel relevant to Whitaker's plight and in turn feels like unnecessary baggage that pads the runtime.
Everything in Fight shoots for the skies — and on purpose. The music is constantly swelling the photography glossy and unnatural and rarely do we breach Washington's wild exterior for a sense of what Whitaker's really grappling with. For Zemeckis Flight is still a spectacle film with Washington's ability to emote as the magical special effect. Instead of using it sparingly he once again goes big. Too big.
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First regular series role, playing Catalina on NBC comedy "My Name is Earl"

Summary

Beautiful Latina Nadine Velazquez was beginning to make a habit of playing sexy supporting role on the big and small screen that emphasized little more than her sultry good looks. But in a turn of good fortune that every actor anticipates, she was given the chance to show off her comedic skills as well as her obvious assets when she won the coveted role of Catalina, the lazy, sweet hotel maid, on the hit NBC comedy, "My Name is Earl" (2005- ).